Published: Friday, June 4, 2010
Zoo bears show off their might
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Woodland Park Zoo’s grizzlies will eat their way through an unkempt campsite in their exhibit as part of Bear Affair’s demonstrations and activities focused on living in harmony with bears.
Do you know what happens when you store food and garbage carelessly in bear country?
If not, you might want to drop in for a demonstration Saturday at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle.
Keema and Denali, brother grizzlies, will give you food for thought, so to speak, as they rip into a staged campsite with a tent, sleeping bags, pots and pans, coolers and an assortment of scattered food items.
The event in the zoo’s grizzly bear exhibit is set from 11 a.m. to noon. You can see a video of a previous demo at tinyurl.com/WoodlandBearsCampOut.
It’s part of the Bear Affair & Big Howl for Wolves presented by Brown Bear Car Wash from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Activities include a Washington state Department of Fish and Wildlife demonstration with a Karelian bear dog, showing how these dogs help condition nuisance bears to avoid human contact. To learn more about the dogs, go to www.washington beardogs.org.
Bear Affair & Big Howl for Wolves also features talks by the Grizzly Bear Outreach Project, Wolf Haven International and zookeepers. There also will be activities teaching how to live in harmony with bears.
Biologists estimate about 20,000 black bears are in Washington and as few as 10 grizzly bears in the Cascades. Go to www.bearinfo.org for more on bears.
Herald staff
If not, you might want to drop in for a demonstration Saturday at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle.
Keema and Denali, brother grizzlies, will give you food for thought, so to speak, as they rip into a staged campsite with a tent, sleeping bags, pots and pans, coolers and an assortment of scattered food items.
The event in the zoo’s grizzly bear exhibit is set from 11 a.m. to noon. You can see a video of a previous demo at tinyurl.com/WoodlandBearsCampOut.
It’s part of the Bear Affair & Big Howl for Wolves presented by Brown Bear Car Wash from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Activities include a Washington state Department of Fish and Wildlife demonstration with a Karelian bear dog, showing how these dogs help condition nuisance bears to avoid human contact. To learn more about the dogs, go to www.washington beardogs.org.
Bear Affair & Big Howl for Wolves also features talks by the Grizzly Bear Outreach Project, Wolf Haven International and zookeepers. There also will be activities teaching how to live in harmony with bears.
Biologists estimate about 20,000 black bears are in Washington and as few as 10 grizzly bears in the Cascades. Go to www.bearinfo.org for more on bears.
Herald staff
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